personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial literacy and household net worth, relying on … comprehensive measures of financial knowledge designed for a special module of the Dutch Central Bank Household Survey (DHS). Our … savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …

We analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey …

the household fallacy. We provide a reason to be skeptical of this claim that holds even if the economy always operates at …

attend a 3.5 hour training session designed to build their trust in financial institutions. Using household survey data … the use of bank accounts for transactions. The increase in savings is close to double the savings of the treatment over … the 10 month period prior to the intervention, 7 times the savings of the control group over the same period, and a 1 …

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …

A substantial literature exists on the impact of pension schemes, both public and private, on the level of household … private savings and about the magnitude of the displacement effect. Using data for 8,279 Canadian households, and estimates of … pension wealth (both private and social security) which we construct for each household in the sample, the estimated …

in housing, and declining flows of household savings into deposit institutions. These data underscore the unintended … reallocate their "transactable savings." Cross-section data from the 1962 and 1970 Surveys of Consumer Finances are used to … that accelerating inflation has, in thee presence of comprehensive ceilings on deposit interest rates, altered the savings …